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I'm trying to crunch the numbers on that comment and I can't make them work.
It's about Google using its massive power to make the internet less useful for anything but scamming the public.
Does Google want to organize the world's knowledge? No, not if we examine this. This is an effort to steal from the future. Crunch those numbers.
Has this feature been enabled yet? I'm in North America and it's not on my menu.
Yes, it's active, i'm now officially a domainer but I only own a paltry dozen un-used domains because I think the project ideas behind those will keep me busy for a year or two. I'm not tempted to rush out and grab more honestly.
Layout - there is a search bar in the middle of the page near the top. Search results show regular adsense ads. Do I get credit for clicks on those too or is it all results page cpm for earnings?
You don't get paid per click with this.Do you get paid for landing page impressions or results page impressions only? I couldn't find any documentation on how Google pays people using adsense for domains, it must be there somewhere...
A parked page is not spam. You are simply showing ads relevant to the theme of your domain/internet property.
If you own a piece of land along a highway that gets a few hundred folks driving by a day, you can put up a billboard and run ads and make a little money.
Why can't the same be true for folks who own a little slice of internet property that gets a few hundred visits a day?
Makes sense to me. Good job Google. A little late to the game, but better late than never.
Update: Just wanted to clarify that I don't think they should show up in SERPs, as they do not have any content beyond ads. Just as you would not expect a property with billboards showing restaurant ads to be listed in the Yellowpages under restaurants, only to find out when you get there it is just a billboard of a restaurant... =)
More control of the ads, optimize efficiency & context = more income
Low quality ads, out of context, questionable ads & ads everywhere = less income.
Sorry if this sounds too irrelevant or out of context, but instead of allowing this, G should make an effort to avoid those low quality ads appearing nowadays like the abortive pills on my travel site.
Apples and oranges.
...almost exclusively decide to pack it in and just drop links in forums to their parked domains instead....
I may be wrong about this and I'll have to read the policies again, but I think I remember something in the Domain program policies that prevents a parked domain from being advertised. I don't know if dropping it in the sig file on a forum would constitute "advertising."
But there will be some people completely ignorant of the policies and some who disregared them. As I mentioned previously, this will create a need for Google to allocate resources to fighting the policy violaters. And it seems as if the policy violation police at Google are already overwhelmed.
Someone above mentioned this not generating more money for Google.
Hmmm. Let's see. More resources required but not more revenue to pay for those resources. Interesting approach.
Sorry if this sounds too irrelevant or out of context, but instead of allowing this, G should make an effort to avoid those low quality ads appearing nowadays like the abortive pills on my travel site.
Yep, this is along the lines of what I just wrote about use of resources.
FarmBoy
